The Center for Popular Music is continually developing aids to help researchers. Please click on any of the links below for information and assistance on that topic.

Research Guides

• American Civil Rights Movement Music
• Blackface Minstrelsy

Internet Resources

Recording Industry

• Billboard
• Billboard.biz - Login required. Access from CPM Reading Room only.
• Pollstar - the Concert Hotwire
• PollstarPro - Login required. Access from CPM Reading Room only.
• MTSU Walker Library Research Guide for Recording Industry

Song Search

• The Harry Fox Agency, Inc.
• SESAC
• ASCAP: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
• BMI
• U.T.Knoxville Song Index
• L.A. Public Library Song Index
• Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources
• Billboard Online: Welcome!
• Hip hop lyrics
• Hymns and gospel
• Traditional music – The Mudcat Café

Music Organizations

• Ultimate Band List
• Music Publishers Association (MPA)
• National Music Publishers' Association.(NMPA)
• Nashville Publishers Network
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
• Directory of Music Publishers
• J.W. Pepper
• Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum 
• American Musicological Society
• Society of American Music

Reference

• MTSU Walker Library Research Guides
• Yale University Music Resources on the Web 
• Audio Engineering Society Journal index
• All Music Guide to Recordings
• Chicago Jazz Archive

Copyright

• MLA Guide to Copyright for Music Librarians
• Public Domain Music
• Copyright Clearance Center Online
• U.S. Copyright Law (Legal Information Institute)
• Library of Congress Copyright Office
• Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use
• Creative Commons
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Page 

Libraries and Archives

• Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association (SEMLA)
• Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• National Museum of African American Music
• Florida Atlantic University Judaica Sound Archives
• University of Indiana Archives of Traditional Music
• University of Colorado American Music Research Center
• University of Pittsburgh Center for American Music
• Open Music Archive
• Internet Archive
• Live Music Archive
• The Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Archive & Gallery
• The Society of American Archivists
• The ARChive of Contemporary Music

Preservation

• Library of Congress Audio Preservation Bibliography
• Library of Congress Paper Conservation
• Northeast Document Conservation Center
• Conservation OnLine
• National Archives Audio Preservation
• Western Reserve Historical Society
• Tennessee State Library and Archives Preservation Services
• University of California, Santa Barbara Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project